📰 The Cannaverse | September 24, 2025

Professional education, grower spotlights, Legacy Cup 2025, and CEE helping small and midsize businesses.

Event Today: How to Budget for Your Dispensary presented by Canna Connect

📍 The Wilderness Fitness & Coworking | 🗓 September 24 | ⏰ 12–5 PM

Minnesota’s cannabis market is starting to pick up the pace, with dispensaries now starting to open it’s time to get serious about what you need to budget for. From pre-construction costs and security software to marketing strategies and how to optimize your dispensary for early success.

📅 Today, 12–5 PM | Networking Happy Hour 5–7 PM

Get expert insights from Cure8, Dutchie, Forte Operations, Solink, Surfside.io, Temeka Group, and The Grow House. Come with your questions and leave better connected with contacts to help you budget for success.

Livestream sponsored by the Center for Energy and Environment, sign up here

The event starts at 12:30 pm, please do not park in the CVS lot.

Grower Spotlight: Nikki Halverson, Ignite Dispensary

Nikki Halverson (right) at Cannabis & Community on the North Shore

Meet Nikki, Creative Foods and Cannabis Cultivator at Ignite Dispensary. From CBD soap maker to master grower, Nikki is passionate about educating the community, breaking the stigma, and creating cannabis products that make a difference. In this week’s Community Spotlight, read about how she’s turning her passion for plants into a seed-to-follower experience for customers all across Wisconsin.

Natalie Campion Visits Minnesota’s First Recreational Dispensary

Legacy Cannabis in Duluth, Now Open for Adult-Use Recreational Sales

Natalie from Canna Connect stopped by Legacy Cannabis in Duluth just three days after its grand opening. From a seamless check-in process to shelves full of hemp beverages, low-dose edibles, and cannabis flower from Waabigwan Mashkiki. The experience marked an exciting milestone for this Minnesota girl.

Read more about her experience seeing flower under a microscope on our blog today.

This Weekend: Legacy Cup VI at Surly Brewing

Legacy Cup VI

Legacy Events is making history again with Legacy Cup VI, Minnesota’s first cannabis event licensed for recreational flower sales. This is everyone’s chance to shop, celebrate, and be part of a milestone moment for the state’s cannabis industry. Tickets are still available, grab yours before Saturday! Canna Connect will be there cheering for Coco Flow and Killer Mike.

CEE: One-Stop Efficiency Shop

Did you know CEE helps small and midsized businesses cut energy use and costs, often with rebates covering up to 75% of project expenses? Through their One-Stop Efficiency Shop, powered by Xcel Energy, CEE provides free consulting on lighting, HVAC, and refrigeration upgrades, plus smart thermostat installations. Thousands of Minnesota businesses have already saved big, and yours could be next.

Sign up for a free assessment today!

📬 From the Editor

Minnesota cannabis is moving fast.

Last week, Legacy Cannabis in Duluth made history as the state’s first licensed recreational dispensary outside of tribal operations. This weekend, Legacy Cup VI will take things even further as the first cannabis event licensed for adult-use flower sales.

And today, we’re coming together at The Wilderness for How to Budget for Your Dispensary — a hands-on workshop built to give new entrepreneurs the tools, strategies, and community connections they need to thrive. These are experiences we’ve never seen before in spaces we all know well, and that’s what makes them so powerful.

I’m grateful to be building this alongside all of you. If you can’t join us in person, don’t miss the livestream today — and let’s keep shaping Minnesota’s cannabis future, together.

Stephen Eigenmann 
Founder, Canna Connect

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